Babitz Eve
Babitz Eve - Slow Days Fast Company - Paperback
Babitz Eve - Slow Days Fast Company - Paperback
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Description: No one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated its own kind of moral laws spectacular teeth and a figure that was the stuff of legend she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for a long stretch of the 1960s and 70s. One man proved elusive however and so Babitz did what she did best she wrote him a book. Slow Days Fast Company is a full - fledged and full - bodied evocation of a bygone Southern California that far exceeds its mash - note premise. In ten sun - baked Santa Ana wind swept sketches Babitz re - creates a Los Angeles of movie stars distraught over their success socialites on three - day drug binges holed up in the Chateau Marmont soap - opera actors worried that tomorrow's script will kill them off Italian femmes fatales even more fatal than Babitz. And she even leaves L a now and then spending an afternoon at the house of flawless Orange County suburbanites a day among the grape pickers of the Central Valley a weekend in Palm Springs where her dreams of romance fizzle and her only solace is Virginia Woolf. In the end it doesn t matter if Babitz ever gets the guy she seduces us.
Title: Slow Days Fast Company
Author(s): Babitz Eve
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781681370088
Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Date: 8/30/2016
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: No one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated its own kind of moral laws spectacular teeth and a figure that was the stuff of legend she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for a long stretch of the 1960s and 70s. One man proved elusive however and so Babitz did what she did best she wrote him a book. Slow Days Fast Company is a full - fledged and full - bodied evocation of a bygone Southern California that far exceeds its mash - note premise. In ten sun - baked Santa Ana wind swept sketches Babitz re - creates a Los Angeles of movie stars distraught over their success socialites on three - day drug binges holed up in the Chateau Marmont soap - opera actors worried that tomorrow's script will kill them off Italian femmes fatales even more fatal than Babitz. And she even leaves L a now and then spending an afternoon at the house of flawless Orange County suburbanites a day among the grape pickers of the Central Valley a weekend in Palm Springs where her dreams of romance fizzle and her only solace is Virginia Woolf. In the end it doesn t matter if Babitz ever gets the guy she seduces us.
Title: Slow Days Fast Company
Author(s): Babitz Eve
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781681370088
Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Date: 8/30/2016
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
